Sewing-machine reflector



UNITED VSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED sHELvEEToN, or rADUoAI-I, KENTUCKY.

SEWING-MACHINE -REFLECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,165, dated February 2, 1897.

Application filed June 29, 1896.

fo @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED SHELvERroN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pav ducah, in the countyof McCracken and State 5 of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Reflectors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to reflectors, the object of the same being to provide a simple and cheaply-constructed reflector especially adapted -for use upon sewing-machines, by means of which the light entering a room in which a machine is placed may be reflected upon the throat-plate, feed, and needle of the machine, so that the work operated upon may be more easily seen, especially in a dim light, thereby increasing the quantity and quality of work that can be done by an operator.

The invention consists of a supporting-bar having an arm at one end thereof, upon which is a flange extending upwardly and provided with an elongated slot therein. This flange forms part of an adjustable clamp for securing the device to the arm or head of a sewingmachine. Pivotally connected to the opposite end of said support is a rod, to which is adj ustably connected at its outer end a clamp, in which is pivotally mounted the reflector.

The invention also consists in other details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my device shown applied to a sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is a detail view in perspective of the supporting-bar with the clamp for attaching said bar to the machine shown thereon. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the rear side of the reflector and the connections between it and the supporting-bar.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

As stated above, my improved reflector is adapted to be secured to the head or arm of 5o any sewing-machine, and the same is shown thus applied in Fig. 1. The device is made Serial No. 597,298. (No model.)

up of a supporting-bar l, having an arm 2 at .one end thereof, with a flange 3 rising up- -wardly, which is provided with an elongated slot 4 therein. Acting in engagement with said flange is a plate 5, having a flange 6 at one end and provided with a lug or projection 7 fitting within the slot 4 and acting as a guide therefor.A This plate 5 is adapted to be adj usted back and forth relative to the fiange 3 by means of a thumb-screw 8, as clearly shown. On the under side of the arm 2, adjacent to the flange 3 thereon, is an adjustable plat-e 9, having a slot 10 therein and a iiange 11 upon its outer end. adapted to be adjusted back and forth by This plate is means of a thumb-screw 12, as clearly shown.

The parts 9, 2, 3, and 5 constitute a clamp, by means of which the device is adapted to be attached to a stationary part of any sewing-machine, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the same being accomplished by the adj ustability of the parts described.

Pivoted to an ear 13 upon the other end of the supporting-bar 1 is a rod 14, to which the reecting-mirror l5 is connected. A tight joint is formed between the rod 14 and the ear 13, so that said rod will remain in any position to' which it is moved. The reflector l5 is connected to the rod 14 through a clamp 16, made up of a looped strip of metal, pivoted at its ends to the reflector 15 and having a rounded portion at its opposite end, through which the rod 14 projects. -Between the ends of said clamp 16 a thumb-screw 17 is inserted for the purpose of tightening or loosening the clamp to change the relative position of the reflector 15 on the rod 14.

As thus constructed it will be seen that my device is adapted to be secured to a stationary part of any sewing-machine and that the mirror 15 is capable of being adjustedl to any angle for the purpose of throwing the light directly upon the needle of the machine or the work to be operated upon.

f Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters An adjustable` reflector, andmeans for clamping the same to a sewing-machine or other device, consisting of a supporting-bar having an arm at one end with a flange ex- ICO In testimony whereof l have signed this specification in the presence of two snlosorio' in g witnesses.

ALFRED SIIELVERTON.

Witnesses: I

LOUIS E. LOVE,

JEssIE M. DoUGAL. 

